Sunday Commentary II: Does the Community Support Yard Waste Bins?
As one who has encouraged the city to get behind the use of social engagement and other…
California Safe Soil, LLC – Food Waste to Fertilizer
by Leanna M. Sweha A Vanguard article in January about a food sharing experiment in Davis generated…
Monday Morning Thoughts II: Global Cooling, Prosecutorial Misconduct and More
Global Cooling One of the more interesting arguments I hear against Global Warming is that ‒ 40…
Dietary Guidelines Committee Proposes That Americans Choose Foods Based on Sustainability
By Leanna M Sweha The U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee – experts in nutrition and public health…
The Moral Urgency of Climate Action
by Lynne Nittler In a flood of extinctions and on-rushing global warming, what can one person do…
Monday Morning Thoughts Part I: Mayors Lead, World Follows
(Editor’s note: our readers asked me last week to segment the Monday Morning Thoughts column into separate…
Overstating the Problem of Global Plastic Waste
by Jeff Boone A new science study from researchers at the University of Georgia, published in the…
Sixty Locals Join Largest March To Ban Fracking
by Leslie Crenna Despite afternoon rain, at least 8,000 dedicated citizens, including about 60 from Sacramento and…
Reducing Waste While on Vacation
by Michelle Millet This past Christmas, my family had the opportunity to travel to Hawaii where we…
Commentary: Does Davis Need to Be More Like Woodland?
There was an interesting and thought-provoking column from John Mott-Smith this week and, while the overall subject…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Cart Before Community Discussion on CCE?
(Editor’s note: I had originally put my thoughts on two subjects together as per my usual Monday…
Council to Form Subcommittee on Innovation Parks and Community Choice EnergyAdvisory Committee
Two of the critical issues facing the council are the handling of the innovation parks and Nishi,…
Marching For Climate Change
by Michelle Millet On Saturday, Feb. 7, thousands of people are expected to take part in the…
Food Waste and Greenhouse Gases
Two weeks ago, a Vanguard reader, Ernst Bertone, wrote an article for the Vanguard that we decided…
My View: Innovation, Away from Internal Combustion and Going Carless
One of our readers in the past week “suggested” that perhaps the term innovation is an overused…
Smart, Clean and Local Energy Technologies for Davis
By Gerry Braun and Lorenzo Kristov In a recent article Gerry Braun and Richard McCann summarized energy…
Let’s Take Davis’s Energy Future Seriously
By Gerry Braun and Richard McCann Last year the Davis City Council funded work to evaluate the…
Poll Finds Plastic Bag Ban Has Broad Support
At the end of September, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 270 into law, prohibiting grocery stores and…
Locals Represent Davis Organizations at the People’s Climate March
by Kristin Heinemeier Davis resident and Holmes Junior High School student Peter Holderbein and his mom Kristin…
Responsible Illumination Proponents
by Barbara Clowers We promote responsible lighting design based on the principles of balancing the need for…
